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Is thy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word thy is a Scrabble US word. The word thy is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is thy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word thy is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Yes. The word thy is a Words With Friends word. The word thy is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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You can make 1 words from thy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of thy

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Definitions and meaning of thy

thy

Pronunciation

  • enPR: thī, IPA(key): /ðaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English þi, apocopated variant of þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“thou”). See thou.

Determiner

thy

  1. (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • thee
  • thine
  • thou
  • thyself
  • your

Etymology 2

Conjunction

thy

  1. (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)

See also

  • why
  • forwhy

Albanian

Participle

thy

  1. Dialectal form of thyer

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

thy

  1. Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

thy

  1. Alternative form of þe (“the”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

thy

  1. Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

thy

  1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Etymology 5

Adverb

thy

  1. Alternative spelling of þy (“the”)

Etymology 6

Noun

thy (plural thies)

  1. Alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse því, possibly from the instrumental interrogative Proto-Germanic *hwī (“how, with what”), with the initial h- replaced by the þ- from the forms of *sa.

Adverb

thy

  1. therefore, for that reason

Scots

Alternative forms

  • dee

Etymology

From þi, apocopated variant of Middle English þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ðɑe/
  • (Orkney) IPA(key): /ði/
  • (Shetland) IPA(key): /di/

Determiner

thy

  1. (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thy, your (possessive form of thou)

Usage notes

  • Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.

References

  • “thy, poss. pron.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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